Description

Sales executives sell company’s services. Customers may include businesses, governmental organizations and individuals, both in the UAE and abroad.

Sales executives approach potential customers with the aim of winning new business.

Whatever your product, it’s your job is to sell as many of your company’s services as possible as well as developing and maintaining a good relationship with clients.

Technical Skills

Present and sell company products and services to current and potential clients.

Prepare action plans and schedules to identify specific targets and to project the number of contacts to be made.

Follow up on new leads and referrals resulting from field activity.

Identify sales prospects and contact these and other accounts as assigned.

Prepare presentations, proposals and sales contracts.

Develop and maintain sales materials and current product knowledge.

Establish and maintain current client and potential client relationships.

Prepare paperwork to activate and maintain contract services.

Manage account services through quality checks and other follow-up.

Identify and resolve client concerns.

Prepare a variety of status reports, including activity, closings, follow-up, and adherence to goals.

Communicate new product and service opportunities, special developments, information, or feedback gathered through field activity to appropriate company staff.

Coordinate company staff to accomplish the work required to close sales.

Develop and implement special sales activities to reduce stock.

Additional responsibilities

Participate in marketing events such as seminars, trade shows, and telemarketing events.

Follow-up for collection of payment.

Coordinate shipping schedules and delivery of merchandise and services.

Provide on-the-job training to new sales employees.

Knowledge and skill requirements

Basic reading, writing, and arithmetic skills required. This is normally acquired through a high school diploma or equivalent.

Ability to persuade and influence others. Ability to develop and deliver presentations. Ability to create, compose, and edit written materials. Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Knowledge of advertising and sales promotion techniques. This is normally acquired through a combination of the completion of a Bachelor's Degree and three to five years of sales or marketing experience.

Visibility requires maintaining a professional appearance and providing

Description

Web designers plan, create and code web pages, using both non-technical and technical skills to produce websites that fit the customer’s requirements.

They are involved in the technical and graphical aspects of pages, producing not just the look of the website but determining how it works as well. Web designers might also be responsible for the maintenance of an existing site.

The term web developer is sometimes used interchangeably with web designer, but this can be confusing. Web developing is a more specialist role, focusing on the back-end development of a website and will incorporate, among other things, the creation of highly complex search functions.

The recent growth in touchscreen phones and tablet devices has dictated a new way of designing websites, with the web designer needing to ensure that web pages are responsive no matter the type of device a viewer is using. Therefore the need to test websites at different stages of design on a variety of different devices has become an important aspect of the job.

Technical Skills

drawing up detailed website specifications;

designing sample page layouts including text size and colors

designing graphics, animations and manipulating digital photographs

registering web domain names and organizing the hosting of the website

presenting initial design ideas to client;

coding using a variety of software;

working with different content management systems

search engine optimization

meeting relevant legal requirements such as accessibility standards, freedom of information and privacy

proofreading content and grammar and making changes where necessary

editing content, debugging code and re-designing web pages

working with other web specialists including web developers and graphic designers

liaising with outside agencies

testing the website to ensure it is working

handing the completed website over to the client

post-sales technical support

training client’s staff

researching current design trends

continual professional development to keep up to date with new software developments.